Quotes About Hierarchy

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

If you put someone above you don't be surprised when they start acting like you're beneath them.

there are the parents, then the sons, then the daughter, then the pigs in the pig-pen and the hens in the henhouse, then the apprentice and then, right at the bottom, the serving maids. Agnes believes her position, as new daughter-in-law, to be ambiguous, somewhere between apprentice and hen. Agnes

Nel mondo ha sempre regnato un ordine: sopra quelli che devono stare sopra e sotto quelli che devono stare sotto.

but the immediate prospect of being elevated above his Anglo-Saxon peers.

their ealdormen and their thegns, who in turn called upon the services of their own followings of well-equipped warriors.

Self-centredness thus enabling every human being to see the universe spread out in descending tiers beneath himself who is its lord,

It's the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves." •

It's because I remind them they're not God," I said. "And that if there is one, I'm closer to Him than they are.

And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.

We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there's a pecking order in that, don't you?

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

I told Morel, thinking to interest him, that M. de Norpois was a friend of my father. But not a movement of his features shewed that he had heard me, so little did he think of my parents, so far short did they fall in his estimation of what my great-uncle had been, who had employed Morel's father as his valet, and, as a matter of fact, being, unlike the rest of the family, fond of not giving trouble, had left a golden memory among his servants

Lastly, would not society become secretly more hierarchical as it became outwardly more democratic?

Nor can one underestimate the lengths to which the Catholic hierarchy went to keep its ugly secrets to itself. One lay Catholic described it as follows: "Their structure and social chemistry is almost identical to the Mafia. There is a deep secrecy and a fierce loyalty to the organization.

The abuses by individual clergy in religious organizations are evil; the persistent cover ups by religious organizations, which empowered clergy pedophiles to get ever more victims, is worse; but the Roman Catholic hierarchy's lobbying against access to justice for all child sex abuse victims is about as cynical as it gets.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. This is no surprise, given that for most of its written history, leadership has been defined in terms of its control functions.

They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!